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The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment …

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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical … over the last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job …

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Jobs in the recession

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The recession of 2008-09 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the previous post-war recessions, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an explanation.

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Freeman, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …

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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...

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The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Diener, Ed; Tay, Louis; Xuereb, Cody - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The aim of this paper is to survey the "hard" evidence on the effects of subjective well-being. In doing so, we complement the evidence on the determinants of well-being by showing that human well-being also affects outcomes of interest such as health, income, and social behaviour. Generally, we...

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Falling real wages

Blanchflower, David; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The researchers note that there have been historically unprecedented falls in UK real wages since the start of the Great Recession. What's more, the long US experience of stagnant real wages (median real weekly earnings in the United States in 2013 were at about the same level as in 1979) might...

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Tackling long-term unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Barbara Petrongolo surveys the research evidence on the effectiveness of the 'sticks' and 'carrots' of active labour market policies.

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Unemployment and domestic violence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

unemployment - and these have had contrasting effects on the level of physical abuse. …

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Unemployment and domestic violence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

unemployment - and these have had contrasting effects on the level of physical abuse. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738417